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GUTHCH_190808_023.JPG: I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.
I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.
Woody Guthrie

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Description of Subject Matter: Stockbridge is located in the Berkshire Mountains on the western edge of Massachusetts. It's a little town of 2,400 souls which looks a lot like a village that the illustrator Norman Rockwell would paint. That's not entirely coincidental because he lived and died here.

I'd already seen his artwork when they came to the Corcoran Art Gallery here in Washington DC so I didn't try to see it again. (Personally, though, just thinking of Norman Rockwell makes me feel warm and fuzzy.) For me, though, Stockbridge meant something else that's not even listed in the AAA guide. This is thanks to the song "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie. (He's no relation but he has a great last name!)

If you remember the song... well, to call it a song is generous. It's one chorus inserted in a 20-minute discussion of Arlo's experiences trashing up the Berkshire Mountains and how that allowed him to avoid serving in Vietnam. The complete lyrics can be found on http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml but here are some relevant passages:

This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the pews, they d ...More...

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2002_MA_Guthrie_Center: MA -- Great Barrington -- Guthrie Center at the Old Trinity Church (Alice's Restaurant Church) (3 photos from 2002)

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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
(May/June) a two-day jaunt to New York City for my 62nd birthday,
(July) two-weeks out west for San Diego Comic-Con and sites in Utah,
(August) a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts to experience rain in another state,
(August) a three-day trip to Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
(August) another two-day jaunt to New York City (United Nations, Flushing).
That's it so far!

Partially Reviewed: Rough draft. I've gone through these pictures once, removing the worst ones, some duplication, etc. I usually take sequences of 4 or 5 pictures at a time and there are lots of near duplicates. I'll be doing a final review later which will cull the pictures down some. To be honest though, I'm way behind on doing final reviews.